They would have both been watching Sunday, when North Carolina rolled to another men's Sweet 16. Of that, everyone seems sure. Eve Carson, the student body president, who once was so eager to get on the video screen during a Duke game at the Dean Smith Center, she showed up in a blue prom dress. Jason Ray, for three years the mascot cavorting around the basketball court in a ram outfit during timeouts.

Jason Ray, a North Carolina student who performed as a mascot for the school's basketball team, died three days after being struck by a car hours before an NCAA tournament game. He was 21. In New Jersey to attend North Carolina's game against Southern California, Ray had been in critical condition since the accident Friday afternoon. He was hit from behind while walking on a highway shoulder near his hotel after going to a nearby convenience store.

The student who wears the North Carolina mascot uniform remained in critical condition Saturday after being hit by a car while walking on a highway shoulder outside a hotel. Jason Ray, a senior from Concord, N.C., was injured while walking in the afternoon in Fort Lee, a few miles from the Meadowlands complex where the game was played.